Chapter 3242 3254 [Peeping]
Inspector Megure stroked his elastic double chin and stared at Calvados suspiciously: "Could it be that you had an argument while you were on the phone, so you came here in anger and killed her? The murder weapon was a vase placed on the shoe cabinet in the entrance, a weapon that was easily accessible. This looks like an impulsive crime. And you were in the same building, with no alibi, so you had plenty of time to commit the crime!"
Calvados: “…”
It seems that it's not just that kid who is annoying, but all of these brainless Tokyo police are the same... If only he had a machine gun, he would kill all of these bastards.
I imagined a wonderful scene in my mind of machine gun fire and killing all the annoying people... However, when the wonderful fantasy ended, I was still faced with the cruel reality of being surrounded by a group of police.
Calvados could only take a deep breath and try to maintain the manners of a caring citizen: "I don't know where she is watching the movie - even if I really want to kill her, how can I find this place accurately?"
It was just a rhetorical question, but who would have thought that the fat police officer would actually think seriously about this question: "Maybe you talked on the phone? For example, the deceased said something like 'Even if I'm watching a movie at Hutian's house, I won't go to see you', and the mailbox at the door of this apartment building has the name of the resident on it, so the specific location of Hutian's house is not difficult to find."
“…” Calvados’ fists clenched, and for a moment he didn’t know whether this policeman was smart or stupid, or whether he was framing him.
He suppressed his anger and said, "You think too much. What kind of conflict could there be between her and me? At worst, I can just rent a house somewhere else. Compared to being stood up for a while, those who owe her money have more motivation."
Speaking of motive, Inspector Megure thought about it and felt that it was right.
He asked his subordinates beside him: "How is the visit going?"
Miwako Sato came to her senses. She was originally responsible for visiting the residents in the building and asking about the situation. But she ran into the suspicious Mr. Yamaguchi just after she went downstairs. So she sent the suspect back first and let other colleagues do the visiting work.
Now that his superior had suddenly asked about this, Officer Sato quickly said, "I'll go and urge them right away!"
Fortunately, before she left the house, the police officers who were investigating the situation had returned with a fairly detailed record.
The young police officer reported: “Mrs. Chuyue, who was murdered, was also a resident of this building. She was from a wealthy family and often lent money to other residents here.
"According to other borrowers, Mrs. Chuyue charges very high interest rates and is very strict on time. If there is a slight delay in repayment, she will force the borrower to compensate with expensive items."
"In addition, when we visited, we found that many people knew that the deceased came to Mr. Goda's house today. She seemed to often borrow the audio-visual room in Mr. Goda's house, and every time she turned up the volume very loudly."
Inspector Megure was stunned: "In other words, everyone in this building who has borrowed money from her is a suspect?"
The young policeman nodded painfully.
Inspector Megure sighed and said, "Go make a list of the borrowers and check their alibis one by one."
"Yes..." The young policeman took on the task and walked away dejectedly.
Officer Sato glanced at the approximate number of people recorded in the transcript and also had a headache. However, as a fairly experienced police officer, she quickly found a shortcut to save effort.
Sato Miwako came close to Jiang Xia and asked in a low voice: "What do you think?"
Jiang Xia also whispered: "The murderer should be Mr. Hutian."
Miwako Sato: "?!"
In other words, she actually guessed it right just now?
After a brief moment of surprise, the policewoman cleared her throat and regained her composure. Thinking that Jiang Xia definitely did not come to this conclusion by guessing, she asked seriously, "Why do you say that?"
Jiang Xia: "Mr. Hutian asked me to find a clockwork mechanical watch. According to him, the watch was accidentally lost three weeks ago, on the last day of his wife's death."
"But when we found it in the washing machine a while ago, the time was still running normally."
As a glorious Tokyo police officer, Officer Sato is often confused, but she is more perceptive than her other colleagues.
After hearing what Jiang Xia said, she quickly understood and her eyes became sharp: "If I remember correctly, this kind of mechanical watch needs to be wound regularly to operate normally. The last winding can only last for two or three days at most. If it has really been lost for three weeks... then it should have stopped long ago."
Jiang Xia nodded: "So this gentleman invited me here not to really look for the watch, but to ask me to provide him with an alibi."
When Miwako Sato heard this, she wanted to laugh: "Why are there always prisoners who want to get this kind of thing from you?" If I remember correctly, this is not the first one, and the ones before... are still in prison reminiscing about their lives.
Jiang Xia sighed, as if he felt a little regretful: "He just wanted to find a random detective to make do with, but he didn't expect that the person working in the 'Amuro Detective Agency' was me - he planned to use someone else as an alibi, but was unwilling to do his homework in advance, this is really..."
Officer Sato couldn't help but feel regretful as well. It took her two seconds to come back to her senses and she felt like something was wrong: Wait, as a police officer, I shouldn't feel regretful about this, but should be thankful for it.
However, for a second-year high school detective, a nearly perfect mystery is obviously more attractive than the current case full of loopholes.
Officer Sato patted Jiang Xia's shoulder with great understanding, and tried to persuade him not to drive fast in the middle of the night.
But at this time, Officer Takagi seemed to remember something, and he asked Hideo Goda, who had hired the wrong detective, "By the way, when you went to the Amuro Detective Agency to look for Jiang Xia, did you encounter any suspicious persons?"
When Toru Amuro heard the key words, he turned around and looked over.
The Amuro Detective Agency is one of his frequent bases, and Amuro Toru has always been very thorough in protecting this place - except for Hashimoto Maya, a suspicious person who was exposed and had to be taken in, he asked himself if there were any other suspicious guys around his agency recently.
But the policeman in front of him would not be aimless. He asked, "What do you mean by that?"
"This..." Like Inspector Megure, Officer Takagi was also a little intimidated by this big-name detective.
After hesitating for a moment, he turned his back to Inspector Megure, pulled Jiang Xia and Amuro Toru aside, and whispered: "In fact, Inspector Megure and I have been hesitating whether we should tell this matter..."
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